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"Don't be polite to me, Xiao Zheng, you are our driver, and you need cigarettes to refresh yourself.

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Under everyone's persuasion, Xiao Zheng couldn't refuse even if he wanted to, so in the end he had no choice but to accept it.

The high-speed train was boring. Once we left the main city, there was basically no signal and we couldn't even connect to the Internet. The group could only pass the time by chatting.

"Xiao Zheng, where are you from? When did you join the company?" Lao Fang asked.

"My hometown is from Heizhou in Northeast China. I used to drive a large car in the army. I only joined the company at the end of last year and it's less than three months old!" Xiao Zheng replied.

"Did you come here to work alone, or did your whole family move here?" Xu Dong asked smoothly.

"The whole family moved here."

Xiao Zheng's family is relatively energetic, and the family successfully obtained a temporary residence permit in the capital. Otherwise, he would not have been able to join the power company. Although he is only a contract worker, it is much better than dispatched workers.

"How is life over there in Heizhou?" Lao Wang asked curiously.

Xiao Zheng shook his head: "Life is very hard, especially in winter. The food rations are not enough to eat. Let alone children, even adults can't bear it."

"How much ration do you have per month?"

"Take our family as an example. There are a total of five people in the family, three adults and two children. In the least month, our family only bought 71 kilograms of food, and most of it was potatoes and sweet potatoes.

If it weren't for the fact that there was still some food left at home, the family almost wouldn't have survived. I remember that the price of a pound of potatoes at that time was as high as hundreds of thousands of dollars on the black market. "

"Why is it so lacking?" Xu Dong frowned.

Logically speaking, rations are distributed uniformly across the country, and no matter how small they are, there must be a limit. There cannot be too much difference between states.

Xiao Zheng explained with a wry smile: "There was a super sandstorm during that time, and the roads were buried in sand. Food could not be transported in at all. Even if there was food on the food card, we could not buy ready food."

"So that's what happened!" Xu Dong said with emotion, this is a natural disaster, and no one can do anything about it.

"Ever since this incident, our family has made up its mind to move. If we encounter this kind of situation again, we don't know whether we can survive it."

"So, the population outflow in your area is quite serious?" Lao Fang asked immediately.

"It's very serious. Most of the rich and powerful people have left. Even our capital is almost half empty now."

"The house price should be very cheap, right?"

"It's extremely cheap. In general residential areas, the average price is less than 3,000 yuan. It's even worse in small and medium-sized cities below. In order to attract the population, the houses are almost given away for free." Xiao Zheng replied.

"So exaggerated?" Lao Fang expressed doubt.

"Small and medium-sized cities often have water and electricity cuts, and sometimes even heating. They can't even give away the houses there, and almost all the people are gone."

Xu Dong touched his chin and had to sigh: "You guys are at a disadvantage because there is no outlet to the sea and it is blocked directly. It's really disgusting."

"Hit the nail on the head!" Lao Fang immediately gave a thumbs up.

Xiao Zheng hesitated for a moment, seemingly hesitant to speak.

Xu Dong quickly asked: "What? Is there a hidden secret in this?"

Everyone became interested and quickly asked questions.

"Hey, I'll just tell you. It's probably an open secret." Xiao Zheng sighed, "Actually, I don't know much."

"Stop dawdling and speak quickly!" Lao Fang urged.

“Our country seems to have carried out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation with the Mao Xiong people in the east. Access to the sea is not a problem at all, and many desalination plants have been built.

The biggest problem is that the temperature is too low, especially in winter. During the coldest period, temperatures of minus 50 to 60 degrees are common. No industry can be built in this extreme weather. "

"What you said does seem to make sense." Lao Fang agreed.

Xu Dong was very curious about Mao Xiong's cooperation and couldn't help but ask: "Xiao Zheng, do you know what's going on over there now?"

"I do know something about this. At present, the wooly bears in the entire Asia have either gone to the west or settled in our country.

The climate there is even worse, and because of the lack of large cities and poor infrastructure, there is no way to survive.

The previous Xianbelia fire almost burned their coastal border area. In the end, it was our help that put out the fire. "

"Where did they all settle?"

"They are mainly in Bingcheng, our capital, and there are also many in other cities. In total, there are about more than 300,000 people. They have been allocated separate settlements and have also been issued food cards."

"So generous?"

Xu Dong suspected that he had heard wrongly. He had personally experienced the previous refugee crisis in the Southern Dynasties.

"Of course there are conditions. The two parties seem to have signed some kind of cooperation agreement. I don't know the specific content. I heard that several domestic mining giants have opened branches there."

Xu Dong probably figured out the context of the matter.

According to the memory of the previous life, the country of the Furry Bear is also one of the founding members of the Asian League. It seems that the cooperation between the two parties has been in full swing for a long time.

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Chatting time always flies by.

In the blink of an eye, it was lunch time. Xu Dong did not prepare any lunch box, but took out a bag of sweet potato cakes for lunch.

He has been a little overweight recently, and he wanted to take this business trip as an opportunity to "train" himself.

Lao Fang held the lunch box and joked: "Xiao Xu, you had a fight with your wife? Why didn't you even prepare a lunch box?"

"I left in a hurry this morning and left it at home." Xu Dong took a big bite of the sweet potato cake.

"Do you want us to share some food with you?"

"No need." Xu Dong raised the sweet potato cake and gestured: "You guys eat yours, I have sweet potato cakes, I won't be hungry."

"Your sweet potato cake looks good, can I try it too?" Lao Fang said shamelessly.

Xu Dong directly shared one with the other party.

The homemade sweet potato cake is different from the ordinary sweet potato cake. It contains ingredients such as peanuts, sesame seeds and honey. It tastes sweet but not greasy, crispy and delicious.

"Delicious, really delicious!" Lao Fang praised repeatedly.

After the meal, everyone took a nap. Xiao Zheng volunteered to help everyone look after the luggage. The New Year was coming soon, and petty thefts were increasing.

The chat continued in the afternoon.

Until six o'clock in the evening, the train arrived at Mindong Station on time. Due to the urgency of time, as soon as they left the station, the five of them chartered a noodle car and hurried to Funing County below.

The handover location is located in a private breeding farm in Funing County.

Another long journey.

After an hour and a half, the chartered car finally arrived at the destination. Before the curfew, everyone finally checked into the local hotel.

As the saying goes, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. They don't intend to challenge the curfew system here. It's better to keep a low profile when going out.

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